Overnight, Russian aerial assaults have resulted in power cuts in multiple districts of Ukraine's capital, Kyiv.
Nine people were hurt while inhabitants in the city's east were experienced blackouts and encountered problems to water supplies, as stated by local authorities.
Simultaneously, a seven-year-old child was killed in a distinct Russian drone strike in the Zaporizhzhia area in the southeastern part, as reported by regional authorities.
Russian forces has intensified assaults on power infrastructure over recent weeks, while officials has demanded "substantial measures" from international partners to increase pressure on Moscow.
"What is required is not symbolic gestures but decisive action - from the US, Europe and the G7 - in supplying protection systems and applying penalties," was stated in a public message.
He said that hundreds of unmanned aircraft and over thirty missiles targeted energy facilities, labeling such attacks as "strategic and deliberate" and against "everything that sustains normal life" as winter approaches.
Energy officials said Russia was "conducting extensive attacks" and maintenance teams were working to repair systems.
A series of attacks hit energy infrastructure and apartment buildings in the capital.
Several of the people injured in the assaults on the capital have been hospitalized, as confirmed by city authorities.
Regional authorities said the urban area came under significant strikes during nighttime hours. A young boy was killed and multiple civilians were hurt.
The attacks succeed nights of air raids in the region, sections of which are occupied by Moscow's military.
All of Ukraine is on alert for advanced weapon attacks, which are more difficult to detect.
Government officials told journalists that Moscow was intentionally trying to destroy the national power system, with assaults already impacting energy systems.
He said utility staff and authorities were preparing for further attacks.
